A Little Present from Sprongolia
Shronk and Frickle thoroughly enjoyed visiting the natural history museums on Earth. They’d squeeze their Sprongolian lifeforms into human suits and adopt Earth names for the occasion. Today, Shronk chose ‘Sandra Crook’ and Frickle picked ‘Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’.
Sandra pointed at an exhibit entitled ‘Under the Sea’ and giggled.
‘It always amuses me to see this on display,’ she said, in Sprongolian. ‘What do they call it again?’
Rochelle squeezed her three tongues together to formulate the word in English.
‘C-o-r-a-l,’ she said, enunciating proudly.
‘And they’ve no idea it’s actually Sprongolian … waste matter?’
‘Nope.’
‘Shit,’ said Sandra.
‘Literally,’ said Rochelle.
(100 words)
PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook
Sorry Sandra! Sorry Rochelle! Talk about taking someone’s name in vain!
I’m off on holiday this weekend for a couple of weeks so please don’t think I’m ignoring you if I don’t reply immediately. If the WiFi’s good (and the company’s bad) I may take a peek while I’m away 🙂
Click the link below to see what other Friday Fictioneers did with the prompt, or click here to head over to Rochelle’s place and join in.
That made me laugh. Dr Who may need to investigate at one point.
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He/she might indeed. Sprongolia is, of course, right next door to Raxacoricofallapatoria, home of the Slitheen 🙂
(And yes, I did have to google it to get the spelling right!)
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Ah, man, you’re gonna get me kicked out of the library… Cackling too loud! It’s a capital offense around here. Love it!
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I’m so sorry Jelli, I recommend a large dose of ‘War and Peace’ to calm the titters. Glad you enjoyed my silly tale 🙂
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Hehehe! Not the first, nor the last time to get the “librarian look”. Heheh!
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Funny as a box of frogs, brilliant stuff!
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Dear El,
I’m squeezing my three tongues together to say “Shit that was hilarious!”
Shalom-alom,
Your Friend Frickle…I mean Rochelle 😉
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Haha my mind instantly went to the great coral reefs in the pacific ocean. I sincerely wish that my poop looked like that, though I imagine it’d be a bit tricky and painful to “get out” so to speak haha. Great story you have here 🙂
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Somehow I think you captured Sandra and Rochelle just as I imagine they would talk to each other – aliens or not! 🙂
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it’s very creative of you. well done.
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Well done with your wicked story!!!
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So when my character referred to the exhibits as “a bunch of crap” he was actually correct 🙂
Fun take!
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That definitely got a good laugh out of me!
Shit indeed… ha ha ha
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Three tongues. Huh. I hope she has a big mouth 🙂
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Bahahaha great cleber piece!! Hilarious. Well done
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Ha… so wonderful… remember now to use gloves when touching coral.
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Hahaha. it is true what they say. Be careful of your writer friends as you may end up in their stories. Nicely done.
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I love your characters. Great fun! 😊
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That Rochelle, she speak with triple forked tongue. And you must have been channelling my recent conversations… you got it about right. 🙂 Good one – I’m glad you’re participating again.
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🙂 A lovely speculative story. Wonderful imagination to turn coral into waste matter.
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“Like your picture <3”
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